According to Google, Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results. You are able to receive alerts for any search term you use choose, and currently your results come from news, blogs, groups, web, video, or all by comprehensive search of them all. The frequency of the alerts are set by you - daily, weekly, or as it ha

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Does this print ad need anymore explanation? A French advert for Tampax, I absolutely love it, I think it’s funny, original and provocative.

On the advert we see a woman happily swimming amongst great white sharks whilst on her period. See all the great whites taking no notice of her? Fabulous!

I don’t want to see demonstrations involvi

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Has anyone else noticed how easy it is to have a submitted blogging zoom post go hot? It seems absurdly easy to me and perhaps even a little detrimental to blogging zoom itself. At this point (up until this submission) each and every one of the posts I have submitted has gone "hot". I'm not talking 2 or 3 posts but a fairly decent number.

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Many bloggers wrote about BlogRush. I too did a review of the service and the traffic it brings. I received lot of comments for that post. Saedel from PlanetSaedel shared the view that BlogRush is blocking any reviews about their service.

I did a complete check of my archive and BlogRush reports and have a few interesting findings to shar

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have been doing a case study of improving the earnings of a boring blog that I had neglected for a long time. Here’s an update on my progress.

The reason I would like to put some more effort towards this is that I only have to do it once. Once the numbers get up there, since there’s not much competition, I will not have to do much, and the

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There seems to be a growing trend to buy your way to A-list blogger status. It really seems to be a growing trend and something to think about. You can find examples of this all over the web whether its by purchasing reviews on high profile sites to hosting a popular blog contest.

If your traffic is to where you want it then you may want t

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At first glance, the website looked entirely confusing and hard to understand, but it only took a few minutes of playing around with it to master it. Overall, here is my summary.I sent 47 people from my blog to Entrecard.
With the ads I purchased from entrecard, I got 31 visitors back to my blog.

Although I still have over 150 credits to

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I have bitten half the bullet and decided to install and stick with Haloscan, so that EVERYBODY can leave a backlink back to their site and not just Blogger blogs. It is frustrating not being able to go visit the sites of other bloggers in other domains. Folks it is easy to do and probably worth it in the end. If we all do this then people ou

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We've all experienced the pain and frustration of attempting to get onto the front page of Digg. For some of us, it is easy, but for millions of people around the world, the front page of Digg is like a fantasy world that we can only dream about without ever getting there. So, if you are one of those millions, I have something you may want t

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A blog I wrote that encourages viewers to comments on blogs they read. If you've taken the time to view a blog, why not take the time to comment? Not only will you make the blogger feel good but you can receive a one-way link back to your site aka good Google juice! Sponsor good communication by commenting.

"I blog because I have somethi

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There's a lot to be said about herd mentality. In the Blogosphere, the bane of herd mentality will never go away so long as there's a continuous flow of newbies coming into blogging. If they have no one to guide them such as a mentor, then they will fall in with the crowd and move along with it. That's a general view of what's going on in

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A question I get often is: how do you find such great images through Flickr? Most importantly, how do you find such great images that you can use freely?

In this post, I want to share everything I’ve learned about how you can quickly and easily find Flickr’s best images to suit your needs, whether it’s for a blog post, an eBook, a design,

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Blogging for money has become a million dollar business, top bloggers make thousands of dollars each month for paid reviews and displaying ads on their sites. Selling ads slowly turned from a way to pay server costs using adsense to a full time job marketing products for many bloggers.

This post takes a look at how top bloggers display ads

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That is part of the idea behind Swypefile.com. This is another site, similar to BloggingZoom or Pluggy, with one major difference. The site is monetized by Google Adsense and you are encouraged to add your publisher id to your account. When you do so, ads with your publisher id are used for all of your submissions. What is more, is that your

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JHS explains that she began blogging on Blogger since she was a neophyte and unaware of the different software platforms. It was easy to use and effective, but after becoming more proficient, she migrated her site to WordPress. She argues that the migration process but not entirely painless, but worthwhile, enumerating 13 of the reasons why W

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